of
correction.

_Bob_, a shoplifter's assistant, or one that receives and carries off
stolen goods.

_Bob ken_, or _a Brownmanken_, a well furnished house.

_Bone_, to apprehend, seize, or arrest.

_Bone box_, the mouth.

_Bone Darkmans_, a good night.

_Bone setter_, a hard-trotting horse.

_Booby hutch_, a one-horse chaise, noddy, buggy, or leathern bottle.

_Borde_, a shilling.

_Bouncing cheat_, a bottle.

_Bracket face_, ugly, ill-favoured.

_Brown George_, an ammunition loaf.

_Buck's face_, a cuckold.

_Bufe_, a dog.

_Butt's eye_, a crown, or five shilling piece.

_Bung_, a purse, pocket, or fob.

_Bur_, a hanger-on, a dependant.

_Bum bailiff_, a sheriff's officer who arrests debtors; so called perhaps
from following his prey, and being at their bums, or as the vulgar phrase
is, hard at their a---s. Blackstone says it is a corruption of bound
bailiff, from their being obliged to give bond for their good behaviour.

_Bum brusher_, a schoolmaster.

_Bus-napper_, a constable.

_Bus-napper's kenchin_, a watchman.

_Bye-blow_, a bastard.

_Calle_, a cloak or gown.

_Cank_, dumb.

_Canniken_, the plague.

_Cap_, to swear.

_Captain Queernabs_, a fellow in poor clothes.

_Caravan_, a good round sum of money about a man.

_Case_, a house, shop, or warehouse.

_Cassun_, cheese.

_Caster_, a cloak.

_Calfskin fiddle_, a drum. To smack calfskin; to kiss the book in taking
the oath. It is held by the St. Giles's casuists, that by kissing one's
own thumb instead of smacking calfskin, the guilt of taking a false oath
is avoided.

_Canticle_, a parish clerk.

_Canting_, preaching with a whining affected tone, perhaps a corruption
of chaunting; some derive it from Andrew Cant, a famous Scotch preacher,
who used that whining manner of expression. Also, a kind of gibberish
used by thieves and gipseys, called, likewise, pedlar's French.

_Catamaran_, an old scraggy woman; from a kind of float, made of spars
and yards lashed together, for saving shipwrecked persons.

_Catch Club_, a member of the catch club; a bum bailiff.

_Chanticleer_, a cock.

_Charactered_, or _Lettered_, burnt in the hand. They have palmed the
character upon him, they have burned him in the hand.

_Charm_, a picklock.

_Chates_, the gallows.

_Chats_, lice.

_Chanter culls_, grub-street writers, who compose songs and carrols for
ballad singers.

_Cherubims_, peevish children, because cherubim